His full name is Khalid ibn Waleed Al Qurashi Al Makhzumi. His mother was Lubabah As Sughra, the sister of Hazrat Maymoonah (RA), one of the blessed wives of Rasulullah r, and the sister of the mother of Hazrat Abdullah ibn Abbas y. He was one of the nobles of the Quraish in the days of Jahiliyyah and accepted Islam after the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah in approximately 7 A.H.

Hadhrat Abdullah ibn Amr (R) narrates that Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) said, " Learn the Qur'an from four people: Abdullah ibn Masood, Saalim the freed slave of Abu Huzaifah, Ubay bin Ka'b and Muaz bin Jabal y." (Tirmizi)

Name: Abdullah

Birth: 3 years before Hijrah

Hazrat Zubair (R) was the cousin of Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam). His mother, Safiyyah (Radiyallahu Anha), was the sister of the father of Rasuluallah (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam). He accepted Islam at the early age of 15 or 16. He is amongst the Asharah Mubasharah (the ten Sahabah who were given the glad tidings of entering Jannah). He participated in every battle with Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) and was matyred in the Battle of Jamal in 36 A.H at the age of 60.

Birth: Six years after the “Incident of the Elephants”